HEWORTH, comprising Upper Heworth, Heworth Shore and Bill Quay, was formerly joined to Jarrow as Jarrow-cum-Heworth, but was made a distinct parish in 1843; it is 3 miles south-west from Jarrow, three-quarters of a mile east from Felling and half a mile west from Pelaw railway station, 2 miles east from Gateshead and about 3 south-east from Newcastle, in the Jarrow division of the county, east division of Chester-le-Street ward, union and county court district of Gateshead, rural deanery of Jarrow and archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, and is situated on the North Eastern railway, which passes through the village on the south bank of the river Tyne. Heworth contains the Felling Local Government District; the boundaries of the district were settled for the purposes of the Local Government Act (1858) Feb. 28, 1871, and the whole Act was adopted by the district May 9 and June 9, 1871: sec. 35 of the Sanitary Act (1866) as applied to lodging-houses was adopted in this parish Sept. 7,1866. The church of St. Mary, erected in 1822 near the site of the old church, founded in the reign of King Egfrid of Northumbria, is a cruciform building of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing a clock and 3 bells: there are 800 sittings. The register dates from the year 1695. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £202, net yearly value £234, with residence, in the gift of Lady Northbourne and Mrs. Drewett alternately, and held since 1877 by the Rev. James Steele. The Dean and Chapter of Durham are lords of the manor and, with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, chief landowners, but there are a few smaller owners. The soil is clay and loam; subsoil, various. The chief crops are corn and turnips; and the area, including Felling, is 2,853 acres; rateable value (including Felling, Bill Quay and Windy Nook), £56,233; and the population in 1871, 13,755, and in 1881, 17,138.

Bill Quay and Heworth Shore, half a mile north from the church, is a populous neighbourhood, where there are chemical and cement works; ship building is also carried on. Here are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Schools

Board, Bill Quay, Heworth (mixed & infants), erected in 1877, for 500 boys & girls & 180 infants; average attendance, 420 boys & girls & 81 infants.

Board, Wardley, Heworth (infants), erected in 1878, for 180 children; average attendance, 116.

National, St. Mary’s, Lower Heworth (mixed), erected in 1815 & enlarged in 1887, for 200 children; average attendance, 90.